Jan Brueggemeier

Dr Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier is a media producer, creative-practice researcher and lecturer in Media and Communication at RMIT, Melbourne. His research interests lie in hybrid tech cultures, environmental activism, and experimental media art.

His media practice includes podcasts, media art installations and film scores. He conceived the environmental art/science project Nature in the Dark which projected video art into public space, displayed at Melbourne’s Federation Square, The Gertrude Street Projection Festival and the National Aquarium, Baltimore, MD, USA. Other works have been exhibited internationally at venues such as M+ in Hong Kong, Sonohr Festival in Switzerland, Radio Saout / Marakech Biennale 5, The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, The Goethe Institute of Rome and Meteor Festival in Bergen.

Jan has been actively involved in the organisation of international media networks and has curated numerous media festivals and art exhibitions. He is the co-owner of the boutique production company 2 Genres and a member of Commoners Press, an experimental print studio in Melbourne.

He holds a MFA in Media Arts and Design from the Bauhaus University in Weimar and completed a Creative PhD at the Centre for Creative Arts, La Trobe University in Melbourne. He relocated to Australia from London, where he worked as a project developer and studio tutor for the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture.